Biden to Dem donors: I’m available in 2016 …

posted at 10:35 am on May 23, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

Barack Obama sent Joe Biden out to do some fundraising, with predictable results. Oh, Biden showed up and made his sales pitch on Obama’s behalf, but as it turns out, the President wasn’t Biden’s only client. To the surprise of some attendees, Biden asked the donors to keep some money aside for 2016, too:

Vice President Joe Biden surprised a gathering of donors in Cincinnati last week when he floated the prospect of his succeeding President Barack Obama in the White House.

Biden, who started in the Senate young and would be just 70 in 2012, raised the possibility unprompted during a wide-ranging conversation at the May 19 dinner with major Democratic Party donors, a source in the room said.

He’ll be “just 70 in 2012.” That will make him 74 in 2016, which isn’t exactly spring-chicken territory, even if Biden’s performance as VP made a case for him as a presidential candidate at that point. Small wonder that Biden’s comment “caught the attention” of the donors, especially since no one asked him about his plans after Obama’s presidency.

Biden hasn’t exactly set the world on fire as a VP, however. He’s been put in charge of the Porkulus program, which turned into an expensive flop. Does anyone know what the unemployment rate should be now, according to the administration’s estimate if the stimulus package passed? 6.7%. Thanks to his months-long blather last year about “Recovery Summer,” no one takes Biden seriously any longer on economic matters. And if his non-presence on major foreign-affairs issues like Pakistan, Israel, and Iraq are any indication, no one at the White House takes him seriously on what was supposed to be his one area of expertise.

Besides, the donors aren’t worrying about 2016 for a Democratic successor to Obama. They’re more worried about losing in 2012, and they have to be wondering what the color of the sky is in Biden’s world if he’s starting to feel them up for a 2016 run.

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In 2016, Joe will still be in hiding after Obama loses in 2012 and the Obama tell-all book comes out in 2013 with a very long chapter dedicated to Biden titled, “Why did I Pick that Loser as my VP? or (Top 100 Screw-Ups by Biden as VP)”

If gaffe-tastic Joe lasts in office until 2016 he will have been occupying space at the Federal level for 43 years. 43 YEARS! Government work must be really easy for him to want to put the feedbag on again after 43 years of “service.” The only apt analogy I can think of is someone who continues as head of the family business at the boardroom level after decades of high pay, low risk, and excessive power.
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Go home, already, Joe!

even if Biden’s performance as VP made a case for him as a presidential candidate at that point

If this administration has taught us nothing else it’s that: these guys shouldn’t be allowed to take care of a kitten, let alone the free world. Which incidentally, in only two and a half years has gotten a whole lot less free.

Put him out to pasture. He’s always been rather demented, and old age will can only exaggerate his peculiar behavior. After the humiliation of having BO around we don’t need to be terrified (along with the rest of the world) with Crazy Old Joe at the helm.

He can ride the Acela Express back and forth to DC babbling to passengers and pretend he’s going to work. He loves high speed rail. Perfect retirement for him.

He’ll be “just 70 in 2012.” That will make him 74 in 2016, which isn’t exactly spring-chicken territory….

That phrase stood out to me immediately, too. What absolute tools and hacks the Politico are!!

When Herman Cain announced, the MSM noted (can’t remember if it was AP or what), emphasizing the point, that Cain would be “the third oldest president” evah elected, should he be elected. At 67!! Contrast that to this pap. Notice how they wove the word “young” into the sentence to make you think “oh, 70 is so young!.”

Assuming BO won and then didn’t try to declare the term limit unconstituional, or something along those lines and actually left the office. Biden may be available, bu the US would be lost at that point.

Gotta love Sheriff Joe, remaining completely oblivious to reality for decades. Can anybody think of a politician (or any public figure for that matter) that has stepped on his own crank as many times as Biden?

What’s so hilarious is that the Left has absolutely no problem with this chickenhawk being Vice President, even though he received the exact same number of draft deferments (5) as the previous VP, who was “evil” for doing so.

Joe doesn’t concern me. What concerns me is that Obamao loves history and precedence so much (his own and him setting it, that is.), that not only will BO be the Dem candidate for re-election in 2012, he will also be in 2016. I don’t fear him winning in 2012 but in 2016 the narrative will be “that it’s time for America to realize the mistake it made in 2012 and make amends. And Obamao would be the first Black President to ever be re-elected after losing.” The media doth loveth a narrativeth.

That’s funny. I’ll never forget Rush’s reaction when he heard the news.

txhsmom on May 23, 2011 at 1:43 PM

I no longer see it that way. Joe as president would be a magnitude better than the current jackass. I believe little Bammie is no smarter than Joe, the only difference is that liberals have faced the fact that Joe is an idiot. They won’t face that fact re little Bammie because they can’t.